Animal personality in a foundation species drives community divergence and collapse in the wild

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1461-1468

  Pruitt, Jonathan N ^a   Modlmeier, Andreas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural syndrome; Community collapse; Extinction; Foundation species; Personality; Succession; Temperament

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CLIMAX; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIVERGENCE; EXTINCTION; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; PERSISTENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM; SPIDER WEB;

ANELOSIMUS STUDIOSUS; ANIMALIA; ARANEAE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; FEMALE; GENETICS; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPIDER; TENNESSEE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FEMALE; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPIDERS; TENNESSEE;

EID: 84943452286     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12406     Document Type: Article

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